A total of 1,257 OFW members of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) had received over P800 million in financial aid since the establishment of the agency’s Reintegration Program in 2011.
Designed to give returning workers enough funds to establish businesses, the program approved loans amounting to P865,118,529.80 from June 2011 to December 2014, according to OWWA.
In a statement Wednesday, OWWA said majority of these projects came from Region 3, 4-A, 6, and 12, with 59 percent of them comprised of non-agricultural enterprises.
It said many of the beneficiaries invested their loans in groceries, real estate, water-refilling stations, and franchising stores, while popular agricultural endeavors include grains, fruits, and vegetable farming and livestock- and poultry-raising.
Filipinos, especially those working in conflict areas, are actively encouraged to avail of the reintegration package upon their return to the country.
In 2014, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz ordered OWWA to extend the Balik-Pilipinas Balik Hanapbuhay Program to all OFW’s from Libya and Iraq regardless of their membership status.
She said the plan, which has a P2 billion budget, was crucial for migrant workers forced to abandon their overseas jobs due to armed conflict. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News
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March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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